The 64-year-old man, who allegedly stabbed himself following an altercation with his former reputed wife during which he set fire to his Sophia home on April 8, will be charged shortly, a senior police source said yesterday.

The man of 118, C Field, Sophia was discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) recently, the source said, and has since been released on “cash bail”. Charges will be laid against him shortly.

He had been treated for his injuries, which included stab wounds to his stomach and was subsequently admitted a patient to the GPHC in “critical condition”. His former reputed wife, Bernadette Jackson, 54, who ended their relationship some nine months ago and moved out of the home, was also treated at the medical institution that night for minor injuries she sustained during the altercation.

Reports were that Jackson had returned to the home to collect her clothes and while there was attacked by the man who reportedly attempted to stab her with a knife.

After setting the house afire, he jumped over the fence and then stabbed himself, reports had said.